Software Engineer, Vivid Seats
Web
$100-125k
Ticket exchange and resale platform
Be an early applicant
Ticket exchange and resale platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-125k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Vivid Seats' mission is to empower every fan to get to the live events that shape their most vivid moments and memories.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years professional experience building and supporting production web applications
- Strong knowledge of front-end languages (we use TypeScript, React, and Next.js)
- Experience in designing, building, and testing modern web or cross-platform mobile solutions as part of an agile or cross-functional team
- Experience with client-side application state libraries (ex. Redux, Zustand)
- Experience with front-end testing frameworks (ex. Jest, Mocha, Enzyme, etc.)
- Strong written and interpersonal communication skills to document and share team best practices across the department
- Exposure to design systems, a/b testing, and server-side technologies such as Node.js (preferred, but not required)
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer II, you will build and support systems responsible for the acquisition of multi-million dollar monthly revenue
- You will work on the latest front-end technology stack and make decisions which will directly impact the final product
- Following front-end development best practices, you’ll be responsible for developing solutions that scale to the needs of our customers
- Help guide direction of the front-end systems powering our ticket marketplace, and Vegas.com
- Develop experiments and innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your team
- Work cross-functionally with other development teams and business stakeholders to deliver impact iteratively
- Tackle some of the most difficult challenges scaling an e-commerce marketplace by developing creative algorithms and features that maximize value and efficiency across the organization
- Collaborate to develop and maintain best practices across the software development lifecycle
- Mentor other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and tech talks
- 30 days in
- Complete new hire orientation, gaining the resources you need to be successful
- Learn how ticket marketplaces operate and how you’ll contribute to providing great experiences for our customers
- Acclimate to team and company norms, business objectives, and Vivid Seats values
- Develop basic understanding of applications, tech stack, and development process
- Deploy and make changes to our production systems
- 90 days in
- Contribute to our processes, methods, or technologies to support overall business goals and drive team efficiencies
- Maintain, harvest and aid internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives
- Contribute to team planning, estimations, and design sessions
- Apply a solid understanding of our business goals and our system architecture to your everyday decision making
- Leverage a mindset of continuous experimentation to help with team efficiency
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to decompose and iteratively deliver business objectives
- Produce and deliver clean, quality code that drives team and company tech goals forward
- 180 days in
- Leverage application observability tools to know about problems before our users
- Have self-sufficiency in all applications touched by the team
- Proactively engage in continuous learning in order to advance skill sets necessary for team goals
- Identify areas of opportunity within our systems, come up with a plan to improve them, ship them, and share results and impact
- Own a career growth plan developed in partnership with your manager, and work towards it
Our take
Founded in 2001, Vivid Seats is one of the leading online ticket marketplaces. The event tickets market is one of the biggest out there, expected to reach almost $85 billion by 2027, and the company has secured its place within it with partnerships with big players like ESPN, RollingStone, and the NBA.
The company's strategy has so far been based on massive public exposure through heavy spending on digital advertising, which has brought it great success to date. Its connects millions of buyers with thousands of ticket sellers each year, covering hundreds of thousands of different events.
Vivid Seats boasts high revenues and sustained growth, and went public in 2021. Following its listing on the NASDAQ, the company has been focusing on expanding operations and broadening its tech capabilities. A recent development is the company's Vivid Picks app, which combines live event and gaming experiences to target changing trends in the events ticket space.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2014
$5.2m
SERIES A
Mar 2012
$3.9m
ANGEL
Total funding: $9.7m
Company benefits
- Health, dental and vision packages: BCBS PPO, HSA and HMO plans, mental heath and telehealth programs.
- Retirement and savings programs, continuing education opportunities, and rewarding performance incentives.
- PTO, mental health days, and maternity/paternity policies.
- Company-wide town-halls, hackathons, product demos, in-office happy hours, holiday and summer events, company-sponsored sports leagues and competitions.
- Gym membership fees, wellness weeks, access to on-site treadmill desks, bike storage, fitness classes, and inspiring office spaces.
- Hybrid working arrangements at accessible office locations. Company-provided laptops, monitors, & software in-office. Room for ideas (open floorplan with plenty of meeting rooms, quiet areas, and whiteboards), and coffee. We’re talking good coffee.
Company values
- We Raise the Bar: We shape our industry – we are the competition. We’re ambitious and disciplined teammates who make smart plays and get better every day.
- We Create Exceptional Experiences: Whether we’re engaging a fan, seller, partner, or teammate, we don’t compromise when it comes to their experience. We hold ourselves accountable and lean into every connection to make the moment count.
- We Embrace Change: In our world, the only constant is change and we’re ready for it. As a team, we’re energized by working with speed and agility to anticipate; we’re unafraid to be self-critical and we drive relentlessly to get the best results.
- We Enhance Communities: We invest in our communities inside and out. We’re united in raising awareness around causes close to our hearts and are passionate about giving back.
- We Commit as a Team: Above all else , we’re one team that trusts and supports each other –our unity gives us the strength to tackle even the most difficult challenges facing our business. Driven in our pursuit of the optimal, we constructively voice our perspectives, and when the best play is called, we move forward together.
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
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Leadership
Eric Vassilatos
(Co-founder)Also Principal at Magnolia Capital and Managing Partner at SkyBox capital.
Stan Chia
(CEO)Board Director at 1871, and Board Member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Former COO of GrubHub.
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